CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910 — Page 371

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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

OPTUM.

CONFIDENTIAL.

June 20

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No. 1.

SECTION 1.

RECP

Rr 15 JUL 10

Sir,

Colonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received June 22.)

Downing Street, June 21, 1910. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you copy of a despatch (and enclosures) from the officer administering the Government of Hong Kong on the subject of opium divans at Tsingtao.

I am, &c.

FRANCIS J. S. HOPWOOD.

Enclosure 1 in No. 1.

Mr. May to the Earl of Crewe.

Government House, Hong Kong, May 11, 1910.

My Lord,

I HAVE the honour to forward, for your Lordship's information, the enclosed copy of a letter of the Colonial Secretary, dated the 30th March last, and of the reply of the Imperial German acting consul, dated the 7th instant, on the subject of opium livans at Tsingtao.

I have, &c.

F. H. MAY,

Officer administering the Government,

Enclosure 2 in No. 1.

Sir,

Mr. May to German Consul.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong,

March 30, 1910.

I AM directed to enquire whether the enclosed extract from the "South China Morning Post" of the 1st instant is a correct statement of the action taken with regard to opium divans in Tsingtao.

I am, &c.

F. H. MAY,

Colonial Secretary.

Enclosure 3 in No. 1.

Extract from the "South China Morning Post" of March 1, 1910.

THE German Minister in Peking has, in consequence of the representations of the Wai-wu Pu, agreed to close all the opium dens in Tsingtao within two years, one quarter to be shut up every six months as has been done in Shanghai."

Enclosure 4 in No. 1.

Sir,

German Acting Consul to Mr. Thomson.

Hong Kong, May 7, 1910.

ACCORDING to a statement of the German Government at Tsingtao, the paragraph published in the "South China Morning Post" of the 1st March, 1910,

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